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Budgeting For Success: Getting Out of Debt, Building Your Dream

Feb 7

Posted by Morgan in How To Get Out Of Debt, How to Discover Your Dreams, How to Start a Business | No Comments

Budgeting is an evil word for most of us.

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It renders images of deprivation, of telling ourselves we “can’t have that,” “we can’t do this,” “we can’t afford that.”

Listen to the inner messages those statements are making: “we’re poor, we’re a loser, we’re broke, we failed, life is filled with doom and gloom, do not pass go, do not collect $200…”

How long will it be before we’re back at the mall or going out to eat to rub healing salve on these

harmful statements?

I recently read a favorite blog of mine and the readers were talking about setting a strict budget and sticking to it. I was afraid I was going to get my knuckles rapped.

We all know that for most of us that just won’t work.

So, what do we do? Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: achieve your dreams, budgeting, credit card help, family budget, How To Get Out Of Debt, value budgeting

More Money: I Think I Can’t, I Think I Can’t…

Sep 25

Posted by Morgan in How to Discover Your Dreams, How to Earn Extra Money, How to Start a Business, More Money, The Psychology of Money: Sigmund's Couch | No Comments

I’ve been watching Joe Vitale’s series on the Awakened Millionaire and this last one really hit home for me.

It’s not new information for me but I hadn’t thought about it for a long time.

It was all about the subconscious and how it affects everything we do.

You see the subconscious mind is busy. It is estimated that it sends your conscious mind about 50,000 messages a day. Wow! That’s about 34 messages per minute.

The subconscious mind needs a hobby.

Unfortunately the subconscious mind is a bit of a worry wort and it tends to hold onto memories and messages for a very long time. AND, it can, with great efficiency, torpedo all of your hard work toward your life goals and dreams. (I told you it needed a hobby.)

This is how it works for me. I’m working on developing a product (that I’m really excited about) that I will (I almost wrote “want” but decided “will” was a more pro-active phrasing) sell on QVC, the famous shopping network.

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But the whole time I’m working on this I have a niggling Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: achieve your dreams, GOALS, infomercial, Kevin Harrington, More Money, reach your dreams, self defeating behavior, subconscious mind

One of the Best Kept Secrets for Achieving Your Dreams

Aug 2

Posted by Morgan in How To Get Out Of Debt, How to Earn Extra Money, How to Start a Business, The Psychology of Money: Sigmund's Couch, Where to Start: The Debt Dance Method | No Comments

When I left my job teaching I was given a very nice going away party.

Except for one thing.

My boss gave me a glue stick. On it she wrote “Stick with it.”

I laughed and nodded.

But, it bugged me. Did she think I was so flighty that I wouldn’t be able to go the long haul?

This weekend my husband and I made a big decision–we had been considering it for a long time. We decided to expand our website, Two Penny Cat to include all animal products, not just cats. Why? We researched such things as keyword searches and found that “dog” and “pets” were much more frequently searched than our keyword phrase (cat lovers gifts, or cat lovers, or cat lover.) These were the numbers from the Adwords keyword search tool:

Cat Lover gifts: 880 searches/month

Cat Lovers: 18,100 searches/month

Dog Supplies: 1,000,000 searches/month

Pet Supplies: 1,500,000 searches/month. (Wow…..ding, ding, ding….we have a winner!)

Hmmm.

You know how people (like the ones in that big white house in D.C.) say “Stay the Course”? Sometimes staying the course is a really stupid idea. Sometimes evaluating, studying, and being flexible is the real secret of success.

You know what Yogi Berra says: “When you come to a fork in the road-take it.”

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